238 Minority Quotes for You to Enjoy

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community. Jimmy Wales

People Care Minority Community Bad Only Take Take Care Takes Smallest Tiny Wants Fundamentally Disrupt

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God. John Cornwell

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. John Cornyn

Voting Minority Submit President Willful Tactic Obstruction Majority Judicial Blocks Being Where Use Used Being Used Nuclear Here Bipartisan

There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro. John Garfield

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. John Lewis

Great Voting Minority Past Other Great Majority Percentage Cast Voters Votes Majority American Ohio African African-American In The Past Process Places Means Large Large Percentage Early

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims? John O. Brennan

Great Relationship World Minority Hatred Nation Defined States Muslims More Small Exceptionally Allow Powerful Powerful Nation Like Around Narrow Than Should Billion Actions United Why United States

Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment. John Ridley

Funny Marriage Equality Old Minority White Action Flower Minute Guys Cadre Supporters Empowerment Bunch Get Same Biggest

It is very clear that the present system of innovation for medicines is very inefficient and really somewhat corrupt. It benefits shareholders over patients; it produces for the rich markets and not for the poor and does not produce for minority diseases. John Sulston

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment. Jonathan Kozol

Time Class Black Minority Public Schools Enrollment Visit Percent More Segregated Since Schools Than Any Represent Children Public Present

I'm a very political person. I'm a very opinionated person. I have a lot of opinions about LGBTQ representations in the media, and it's not just a gay community issue. It's a black issue. It's an Asian issue. It's a minority issue in general. Jordan Gavaris

Gay Political Black Minority Community Gay Community About General Opinionated Opinions Issue Lot Very Person Just Asian Media

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all? Jose Antonio Vargas

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Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things. Jose Ferreira

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws. Juan Williams

Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well. Judah Friedlander

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It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing. Justin Simien

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Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets. Karel Reisz

Minority Films Simply Tickets Sell Views Expressed

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts. Karen DeCrow

People Minority Programs Ruled Proof Color Unconstitutional Supreme Supreme Court Court Were Contracts Wondered Want Even Municipal Receive

Being a minority voice is still brave - even if the minority voice is from the right wing. Katie Hopkins

Minority Right-Wing Wing Voice Still Brave Being Even Right

Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions. Kerry Washington

As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer. Laura Moser

People Smart Minority Nation Field Our Spent More Classrooms More And More Smart People Answer Question Very Decades Trying Many Even Groups Fill Now Playing Playing Field

The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way, whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized - it can go the whole spectrum - but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider - and X-Men are outsiders. Lauren Shuler Donner

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No minority should climb all over the majority. Lech Walesa

Minority Over Majority Climb Should

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